The primary issue with these USB 3.0 docking stations is that your HD 4000 Control Panel will not recognize external monitors connected this way as a monitor and thus you cannot use the tweaks (such as gamma adjustments) it has available.

If you are just looking for a simple USB 3.0 hub I highly recommend a powered unit so you can power your external Hard Drives. Here is the one I have that is quite inexpensive ($25.99) and works well:

The primary issue with these USB 3.0 docking stations is that your HD 4000 Control Panel will not recognize external monitors connected this way as a monitor and thus you cannot use the tweaks (such as gamma adjustments) it has available.

If you are just looking for a simple USB 3.0 hub I highly recommend a powered unit so you can power your external Hard Drives. Here is the one I have that is quite inexpensive ($25.99) and works well:

If it is mainly for use on a desk and does not need to be portable I would thoroughly recommend the Toshiba Dynadock device.

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Benefit of the Dynadock is that you can have two external monitors. Negative of course is that your HD 4000 Control Panel won't see them. If you are happy with the color, gamma, brightness controls already built into your monitors this may not be an issue for me. I tried the Dynadock myself and thought my screen looked washed out. YMMV.

I'm clear so far, that i need a USB3.0 Hub to connect all my desktop USB devices to it.

but none of these would offer the possibility to switch betweent 3 PCs (eg. surface and desktop-pc plus HTPC)

since i will be able to connect the surface pro natively to the monitor via DisplayPort and the Desktop-PC via DVI-D i find KVM Switches and others pretty much overdone for the purpose of switching the acces of USB devices between various computers.

i guess it's either the 2port switch and leaving the HTPC out or connecting cables manually for the occasion to switch (i really hope the surface pro can replace the gaming pc for web brwsing and other stuff -- oh the silence )

If all you really want to switch between the devices is a keyboard and mouse then you do not need a USB3 switch/KVM. Consider a USB3 hub to connect to your Pro and and then connect the hub to a USB 2 switch/KVM (lots of these). Your other devices and be connected directly to the KVM assuming they have multiple USB ports (or through a separate hub). I would hesitate to switch things like external hard drives back and forth between devices anyway so this setup would give you multiple USB 3 ports for your surface and allow you to switch your mouse, keyboard and other devices that do not need USB 3 back and forth.